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The 3 major elements of the game revolve around the battle mechanics which you’d be very familiar with if you're an avid gamer. As a deck building, roguelike genre, players are meant to explore the possibilities of different combinations but somehow the variations can get old quite quickly thank you’d think. Thankfully, the straightforward guidelines and combinations are easy to understand, making some of the players who might be new to the genre, easily experience some of the creativity it would bring to the table.

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With the core mechanics of the game focusing on individual combat and survival to outlast your opponents, there are zombies to worry about which means some co-op action as well as potential betrayal. Multiple stage gimmicks are to be abused and a decent cleverness shown by the AI enemies are not to be reckoned with. The amount of content feels a little repetitive as a party purpose game unless it’s in battle royale mode. Which is why we would highly recommend playing this game to compete with your best mates to witness all the chaos it would bring.

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There are certain flaws around all aspects but all respect to the developer who has created this game solo and it’s their very first game to be published as well. No promises but it paves way for more improvements to come nonetheless. Beware that the players are bound to have their time and souls drained with inconvenient mechanics coupled with traps that give no hints or reasons whatsoever. It is a retro style platformer after all so perhaps these factors do belong to the classic genre in its own modesty. It’s definitely worth a try if you're a fan of action games.

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Another great title with immersive classic JRPG roots. Players will be busy with their hearts being engulfed with a tsunami of emotions when the game’s protagonists with all differences in races, culture and relationships eventually come together as one to share an ultimate goal. Players must build cities and defend against waves of invasions which brings enough motivation to show that even heroes still need everyone’s support to grow and be strong. Truly motivating once the players understand that maintaining positive relationships with other adventurers is key to advance forward in their journey. The 2.5D-esque graphics paired with dynamic action camera work is surely eye-candy and the sound design that focuses on epic 1-on-1 duels will be music to every gamers’ ears.

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This is an ultimate text-adventure game where the player is left to deduct clues while puzzle solving through two different dimensions. The storytelling paths crossover between character perspective and timeline. The game attempts to become its own form of emotional storytelling medium just like the classic format of literature, which were mainly restricted to paperback novels. Since video games bring in the advantage of interactivity, the developers try their best to make the modern gaming form as immersive as books have become.

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The main focus of the game’s concept heavily promotes aggressiveness. So the low-risk, high-return situations have been reduced and with the addition of the Heat system, this drives players to be in reach even more, but let’s not forget that a fighting game also requires precise spacing thus making it virtually similar from its predecessor. There have been some short-cut action buttons for beginner players and plenty of content to teach the understanding of how a fighting game may be played. Of all the Tekken series in the past, this one is definitely the most beginner friendly and have designed their system in order to narrow its gap, with the hopes of keeping both the returning players as well as providing convenience to the newcomers.

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In order to ensure the longevity of the game’s lifespan, they’ve focused on polishing the features that were praised for, all while implementing the highly anticipated rollback netcode and crossplay functionality. The launch of their free edition was well handled as well as the party mode gameplay which settles their unique position amongst other fighting games

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With cute and affectionate visuals and a casual friendly character building system, some of the classic RPG meta such as inconvenient item combinations and bland turn based combat were at least given a polished look with specific tutorials and 3D artistic designs. With plenty of eye candy elements, the immersion during gameplay is also pleasantly rewarding.

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Even without any pre-knowledge of this series, everyone can enjoy the combat, action and stories between a master and their servant during the feudal society of the Edo era of Japan. Although the combat becomes quite repetitive while the protagonists develop stronger when the enemies somewhat never seem to learn their lessons, if you’ve heard of this series before, the game’s definitely worth a shot.

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One of the developer interviews mentioned something about implementing a Souls-like element to the game, which was a bit of a concern. Once the game was released, it kept the classic taste of Ys, all while adding creative cinematics thus if you’re once a fan, this game won’t disappoint. Classic ARPG masterpiece as Ys would be, we recommend everyone to give it a try.

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This is a story of love and despair filled with magnificent special effects and wonderful jazz music. It offers some basic puzzles as you progress, but way too simple that you might question whether this is a video game or not. The underwhelming curtain call doesn’t seem to support this question either. But one thing for sure, the scenes and music you experience will vividly remain in your mind for a long time even after your journey’s end.

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The puzzle elements of Colorgrid focuses on using the primary colors to mix and match with squares of dfferent property within a grid-like layout. With its straightforward UI, the 70 different stages felt unique to each other and felt encouraging to uncover more interesting stages to clear through. The key controls requiring rotation and using reflective surfaces were placed in a clever way, just enough to provide fulfillment on finding solutions to each puzzle. The game’s main structure seemed quite clever once colors required to be mixed to create new colors.

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Meg’s Monster should be given some consideration if you’re into experiencing the value of a game’s story. The world is based on a structure of what everyone would agree upon the theme of an ‘infant care’. Even after a few hours of gameplay, you’ll be steadily seated with peak curiosity to see what may happen next, with a mixture of mini games and combat, and a unique mechanism of ‘not making the baby cry’ even if you’re low on health. The game will provide around 5 to 6 hours of entertainment at your leisure.

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A long awaited sequel which also received a proper following number from the original. With traces of considerations from recent gaming vibes spotted, the not-so-friendly progression sequences and wasteful oversized maps are more of a distraction for the fans who expected enjoyment. The combat frequency was also low and slow which makes the action feel a bit lackluster. Story was also a endless chain of dialogues to make it even more slower than it could have been. Since the two main key factors for the game only felt like forceful events of consecutive slideshows only to add more playtime, it made us feel a bit unpleasant after the credit roll instead of the usual joy coming from completing what could have been a proper experience of a video game. The overall contents felt like it was being dragged under a blanket full of unnecessities.

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Just like its original 20 years back, the level of difficulty and their hardcore missions have been well preserved to alert gamers to know their place, into despair. Sadly, the console versions of the game didn’t fully utilize the utility of a gamepad, thus creating a terrible control scheme to navigate through the game, paired with horrible camera controls which makes it a double negative.

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Iggymob, the developer behind this game has resolved the dilemma of an IP that had been yearning for a sequel but had to accept a new era and generation of gamers who weren’t too familiar with the original creatives. The modern gamers were welcomed to this new iteration of the original IP, enjoy the game to its heart's content, and get a good night's sleep once they’re done and dusted with. It’s also a good gesture to fill the position of a game that doesn’t feel too distant to know its origins and most of the negative feedback they received in the earlier stages of the release has been patched through some major updates twice before its first month. These warranty-like solutions gave us hope that they will be cared throughout, and even showed some considerations of adding a history section to tell its detailed origin story as a form of a flashback.

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In an alternate world far from reality, the protagonist trio share their stories in order to heal their scarred minds. This fully dubbed visual novel has shown some of the most superb storytelling and shows a trinity of balance where the focus never leans towards any individual. While the atmosphere is firm on seriousness, there are times when subtle punchlines loosen up tense scenarios. Players are able to earn skins through quests and side quests are also evenly worth experiencing as the main one. Truly a masterpiece.

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The game’s core design lacked innovation compared to the prequel and the story also suffered from lack of creativity. While the game experience was well-coordinated and wholesome in the last time, everything in this Ragnarok seemed to be a series of soulless modules aligned. If the developers’ aim were to safely deliver experience of the prior success, there would have been other ways to deliver in a better, fresh manner. Sadly, the game was insufficient to be felt as a new representation; rather it felt like a DLC of the previous title instead.

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The identity of SD Gundam Battle Alliance’s existence is all the hard work and efforts they’ve molded together to show the hardcore fans since the past, as well as to bring in new interests to their broad world of infinite space timeline. But their dream of making an ultimate SD Gundam universe is still left on a rocky road as issues with certain past titles, repetitive gameplay design and recycled ideas are still questionable even for long-time fans. The sad reality is that of all SD Gundam franchises, there hasn’t been any better action titles than this particular one and you cannot ignore the fact that the devs considered most of the feedback from the past to make something decent for the fans to enjoy. Which also makes it really troublesome to recommend this game if you’re not the most extreme Gundam fan, nor studied any of its lore of the series.

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Since its original release back in 2013, there has been a spike of increase of people who got to know more about the JoJo's franchise. The game itself also has been through various updates and tweaks which allowed the publisher to be encouraged for another challenge. But due to its old technology in network environments, it wouldn’t be the most pleasant experience unless you're a diehard fan of the franchise. The art style however is top notch in creating the vibes of the original anime and the actual voice actors behind the works also. For most fans, the developer efforts that were implemented to make it feel close to the original would be enough for them to enjoy this game to the fullest.

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